19. X. 1921

Dear Comrades!

Judging by the fragmentary information that reaches our newspapers about the growth of the communist movement in Poland, judging (even more so) by reports from some of the most prominent Polish comrades, revolution is ripening in Poland.

A workers' revolution is ripening: the complete collapse of the PPS (the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in Russian terms; II and II)*

In connection with the financial collapse and the shameless plundering of Poland by the capital of the Entente (France and other countries), there is occurring a practical exposure of great-power and national illusions—an exposure that is visible, tangible, and concrete for the masses, for the ordinary worker, for the ordinary peasant.

If all this is so, then the (Soviet) revolution in Poland must triumph, and soon. It is necessary, precisely because this is so, not to allow the government and the bourgeoisie to strangle the revolution through bloody suppression of a premature uprising.

* PPS—Polish Socialist Party. Ed.

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